Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for emotional truth-telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease in Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on TV. She has a successful career in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She took home her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. The 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first person to win all four acting categories. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her debut Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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